So my brother & his family are in Hawaii on vacation and they're reporting birds they see to my dad. Who wants to count them for our Big Year. I am not on the surface (or deep down, let's be honest) happy with this. Big Year is OUR project.

But.

There's no way we'll catch up to last year's count - we're simply not traveling enough to do so this year. They're family. Dad really wants to count the birds. So I'm counting them.